A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...

Around 11,300 years ago, a massive star teetered on the precipice of annihilation. It pulsed with energy as it expelled its outer layers, shedding the material into space. Eventually it exploded as a ...

A novel astronomical event, termed a "superkilonova," is proposed to explain the coincident detection of gravitational waves (S250818k), indicating a subsolar-mass neutron star merger, and an ...